Buddy Broeker, director of embedded solutions at AMD said: "With the AMD Embedded R-Series, we are taking our APU technology to the next level."

"By leveraging its seamlessly integrated heterogeneous system architecture, developers can tap into a high-performance and efficient parallel processing engine to accelerate their graphics- and compute-intensive applications, all while using industry-standard libraries such as OpenCL and DirectCompute."

The R-Series features the power-optimised 'Piledriver' multicore CPU, an evolution of AMD's Bulldozer architecture. It also has discrete DirectX 11-capable AMD Radeon 7000-Series GPU. This can support four independent displays, but by adding a discrete graphics card to the system, this rises to 10.